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Station Road
This is a picture of Station Road with Snapes's hardware shop on the corner. The petrol pump was no longer in use by then but the paraffin one was. Opposite Snapes's is Oak Meadow where we used to play on our bikes and climb trees.
Working back along behind the camera on the same side was the Elycian cinema. Lovely little picture house. I saw Where Eagles Dare, Carry on Camping, the Jungle Book etc there. Also Kes (to my mum's horror). We had intermissions and ice cream and orange drinks sold by attendants with torches and a tray then.
Further on just before the railway bridge is Pimlotts butchers with an abattoir at the back. Was still in use as I remember. Just past the railway bridge on the right was Williams & Deacons Bank on the corner of Mellor Road. Further up Mellor Road was Churches grocers. Mum worked there for Mr Church. Also just past Churches was a sweet shop where we used to... Read more
Horse & Cart
My father, Thomas Armstrong, had a greengrocer's business that he used to deliver by horse & cart. He lived for a long time on Wyngate Road, Cheadle Hulme. I remember when we had the greengrocer's in Hulme, Manchester that he would take us up there on the bus & my sister, Lynne, & I would sit outside the pub, on the grass, with our drinks whilst my Dad played snooker inside.
Does anyone remember my Dad & have any further information about him?
Happy Days
I went to Woods Lane school, after dinner we went to the shops to get vimto lollies, I could only afford a penny one, the threepenny and fourpenny ones looked so good. I had my first date when I was 14 with Ian Ibbotson who was a little older than I, we went to the Elycian picture house, I was so nervous, he was a real gentleman. After leaving school my friends and I used to go to the Kings Hall dancing, on Mondays and Saturdays I think, I remember a group named the Marauders played regularly, the lead guitarist Eric later became the lead singer in 10cc. We went to the swimming baths as often as we could, I loved to play in the Half Moon indoors, I very upset when it closed and of course Bramhall Park was a regular place to visit, it means a lot to me as my mum and dad met there, their names are carved on a tree. My grandad was the gardener at Bramhall... Read more
Cheadle Hulme, 1960s
I moved to Cheadle Hulme in 1963, as a 6 year old. I lived on Lorna Road, behind and to the left of this view. I saw the building of the Precinct and what is now Sim Chem House (then Griffin House). My friends and I would play on the building site, and we played cricket in Oak Meadow. We would explore the derelict Kings Hall, just behind this viewpoint, now Wetherspoons. Next to this, and opposite Whittakers Fish Bar, was Ryder's, a sweet shop with chewing gum machines outside.
Further along from Snape's was Monkhouses, where Jilani News is now. Sportswear downstairs, schoolwear upstairs. Further along, just before Pimlott's, was Bransby's Chemist (who could process your photographs in less than a fortnight) and Nuttall's greengrocers, where I had a Saturday job.
Where Waitrose now stands, stood the shell of the British Legion building, a prefab I think, and a field where we would ride our bikes.
Down Warren Road, to the left of Snapes, was the fishmonger who... Read more
Cheadle Road
This is taken from by St Andrew's Church looking back towards Cheadle Hulme. We lived on Hulme Hall Road at that time. One or two years later I attended Sunday school at St Andrews and also Junos which was an organisation similar to cubs that was held in a hut at the back of the church. I remember the petrol station and further on towards the corner of Buckingham Road?? was RS McColls newsagents. Turn down Buckingham Road and keep going to Queens Road Primary School where I started in 1968.
On the right would be the Kenilworth pub. Further along Cheadle Road past the junction was a few shops and the post office. I think it was called Connolly's. Dad would have had a Ford Prefect when this picture was taken.
Behind the camera heading back towards Cheadle you pass the golf links.
Cheshire memories
Wilsons Bakery/Griffith Wilson
My parents are Angela (nee Goulden) and Bryan Wilson (now sadly deceased), both from Bramhall.My paternal Grandfather owned the bakery in the village "Wilsons" which was taken over after my grandfather's retirement by Ainsworths and which is now a wine bar. He and his several brothers and sisters started life in a farm on the corner of Ack Lane. This site now forms part of the building which houses Reeds Rains Estate Agents. My grandfather started out selling loaves of bread and cakes from a wheelbarrow in which he used to carry his wares and push around the village to his customers before he bought the bakery (the family lived in small rooms above the bakery for a while) and then a house on Maple road which backed directly onto the bakery.He just had to jump over the fence to get to work! My parents married in 1961 and my father then qualified as a Chartered Accountant. He worked at 64 Bramhall Lane South for many years in... Read more
The 50s And 60s
I lived with my parents, Ralph and Joan, "Bindy" and sister Judy, on Birchway, off Ack Lane East, then we moved to 17 Atholl Road. There were several families with children who my sister and I spent a lot of time with - Johnny Catlow at the top of the road, Elizabeth in the house opposite, Robert and his sister up the road, and others whose names fail me!! There were fields and ponds to the top right of the road where we used to play before they were built on.
We used to go sledging at Benja Fold in the village (especially 1962/63) and to Bramall Park and Lyme Park.
There used to be a petrol station and smithy at the bottom of Woodford Road just before the main junction in the centre of the village, with a bank next to it. We used the toy shop on Moss Lane ("Buntys" I think!!) regularly - Lego, Airfix kits, Action Men!! etc. I also seem to remember a cinema... Read more
